Memorable Quotes from Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
"There's more to you, young Haroun Khalifa, than meets the blinking eye." -Rashid (The Shah of Blah) "Ark...Ark, Ark, Ark." - Rashid (The Shah of Blah) "But but but there is no Need for Speed no that my service has been performed." -Butt the Bus Driver "Put it in, take it out. The fellow comes up here. so I have to come and install it, rush job, never mind my workload. -Then, wham, bam, he cancels his subscription, and guess who has to come back and take the equipment out, right away, pronto, you'd think there was a fire. -Now where did I put the blasted thing? -Has somebody been meddling? -Can't trust anybody any more. -Okay, okay, okay, let's be methodical. -Hot tap, cold tap, go halfway in between, go up in the air six inches, and there should be your Story Tap. -So where's it gone? Who's pinched it? -Whoops, what's this? -Oho, aha, is that where you are? Thought you could hide from me but I've got you now. Okay. Time to Disconnect. -Iff the Water Genie Iff: "He sent it by the usual means." "A P2C2E." Haroun: "And what is that?"Iff: Obvious, it's a Process Too Complicated To Explain." Butt the Hoopoe: "Plentimaw Fishes always go in two's. They are faithful to partners for life. To express this perfect union they speak, only and always, in rhyme." Haroun: "I'm no expert, but are you both quite well?" Plentimaws: "All this bad taste! Too much dirt!" "Swimming in the Ocean starts to hurt!" "Call me Bagha! This is Goopy!" "Excuse our rudeness! We fell droopy!" "Eyes feel rheumy! Throat feels sore!" "When we're better, we'll talk more."
"There's more to you, young Haroun Khalifa, than meets the blinking eye." -Rashid (The Shah of Blah)
"Ark...Ark, Ark, Ark." - Rashid (The Shah of Blah)
"But but but there is no Need for Speed no that my service has been performed." -Butt the Bus Driver
"Put it in, take it out. The fellow comes up here. so I have to come and install it, rush job, never mind my workload. -Then, wham, bam, he cancels his subscription, and guess who has to come back and take the equipment out, right away, pronto, you'd think there was a fire. -Now where did I put the blasted thing? -Has somebody been meddling? -Can't trust anybody any more. -Okay, okay, okay, let's be methodical. -Hot tap, cold tap, go halfway in between, go up in the air six inches, and there should be your Story Tap. -So where's it gone? Who's pinched it? -Whoops, what's this? -Oho, aha, is that where you are? Thought you could hide from me but I've got you now. Okay. Time to Disconnect. -Iff the Water Genie
Iff: "He sent it by the usual means." "A P2C2E."
Haroun: "And what is that?"Iff: Obvious, it's a Process Too Complicated To Explain."
Butt the Hoopoe: "Plentimaw Fishes always go in two's. They are faithful to partners for life. To express this perfect union they speak, only and always, in rhyme."
Haroun: "I'm no expert, but are you both quite well?"
Plentimaws: "All this bad taste! Too much dirt!"
"Swimming in the Ocean starts to hurt!"
"Call me Bagha! This is Goopy!"
"Excuse our rudeness! We fell droopy!"
"Eyes feel rheumy! Throat feels sore!"
"When we're better, we'll talk more."